Exhibitions

Mark di Suvero: Tabletops

October 8, 2011-February 26, 2012

Preeminent American sculptor Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) is best known for his dynamic and
monumental works made of industrial steel and salvaged materials that populate museum
grounds, landscapes, and urban environments around the world. In addition to countless
exhibitions and awards, in March 2011 di Suvero was honored with the National Medal of
the Arts by President Obama in a White House ceremony. This exhibition, organized by
UMMA and on view exclusively in Ann Arbor, features approximately 15 of di Suvero's rarely
exhibited smaller scale pieces, or tabletops, from the 1950s to the present. The tabletops are
not maquettes of larger-scale works but an expressionistic and engaging genre all their own,
an outlet for exploring ideas relating to the calligraphic nature of form, balance, proportion,
and movement. Drawing from numerous private collections as well as the artist's studio, the
exhibition offers the opportunity to experience this intimate work in the Museum's ground
level, glass-walled Irving Stenn, Jr, Family Project Gallery, adjacent to the two di Suvero
outdoor steel sculptures on the Museum's grounds–Orion (2006) and Shang (1984–85).

This exhibition is made possible in part by the Office of the President of the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Health System, and Laura Lynch and Hugh McPherson.